Your AccountsService comment led me in the right direction. After a lot of digging, I learned that my /var/lib/AccountsService/users/mendhak file did not have a Background value.
I then learned that my "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.background" was unchecked in dconf-editor. I checked it and a background daemon then started setting the proper path value each time which is nice. However, I cannot figure out why this daemon was disabled. Thanks for responding it is appreciated. Even though this is not a bug, it's very hard to find the right information about this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-greeter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1310711 Title: Background does not change to user specific wallpaper Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Running Ubuntu 14.04, fresh install The Unity Greeter does not reflect the currently chosen background as it did in Ubuntu 13.10. I am aware of the permissions required so as an example I selected a wallpaper that came with Ubuntu /usr/share/backgrounds/Foggy_Forest_by_Jake_Stewart.jpg After setting this as my own wallpaper, I rebooted. The unity greeter still shows the purple oregami wallpaper as a background. I even tried setting permissions to 777 on 'Foggy_Forest_by_Jake_Stewart.jpg ', but the greeter still did not change. I did verify in dconf-editor that the com.canonical.unity-greeter/background had been set to the path above. I also had a look at the log files and they only seem to point to warty-final-ubuntu.png, never my custom choice. (Attached) I was not able to find any configuration files so did not know where to dig around for this. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/1310711/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
